Kuan Yin Teachings

“It is important to accept that the human condition is temporary, fleeting. It’s filled with pain and suffering, beauty, strange tastes, odors of death, everything that exists in the universe. Problems are created when one is so obsessed with his/her own death, when one is too attached to their life. This attachment to a single incarnation causes the species to play out gruesome deaths. If you knew you were more than just this life, you would not plunder the land, each other. Death is like giving birth. Birth can be painful. Sometimes women die from giving birth. However, once the baby is born, all the pain vanishes in an instant. Love for that tiny newborn makes one forget the pain, the fear. And as I’ve said, during other exchanges: love between mother and child is the highest experience, the closest to divine love. You might wonder about the parallel I’m making between birth and death. But I say to you, the fear and pain accompanying an awful death is over quickly! Beyond that portal one is suddenly in the light, in oneness and bliss."

“Some women are powerful teachers. However, even women can be afraid of death, forget how the pain vanishes. Just as a woman heals rapidly after childbirth and then is able to fall in love with her baby, those who pass over also are able to fall in love with a new life.”

Insisting that desire is why we're here on earth: to taste, to experience, Kuan Yin cautions not to become attached to the outcome. According to the goddess, attachment to the outcome of a certain goal can create a "negative driving force". Distinguishing between the two, Kuan Yin characterizes desire as a natural human drive whereas attachment to a goal encourages artificial expectations and outcomes. Relinquishing ego's need to "grab onto" and "take things to personally", trusting in one's natural impulses without presupposing the outcome, one has an opportunity, here and now, to experience authentic spontaneity and liberation.

Kuan Yin professes that even when all hopes and dreams have been dashed, when everything has been destroyed, humanity will eternally possess the attributes of loving kindness and free will. Those born of this precious earth are capable of transcendence through utilization of these inherent human traits. Explaining what she terms as, "the love and forgiveness principle", Kuan Yin says: If enough people know about this, if every human being could recognize the power of the love and forgiveness principle all consciousness on earth would change instantly. Indeed, thoughts can change the course of history. Sometimes, all it takes is enough people knowing about a certain concept."

Changing form before Ms. Lee's very eyes, Kuan Yin's shape shifts demonstrated her message of compassion and loving-kindness. Hallmarks of Kuan Yin’s metamorphosis involved sudden and dramatic size morphing: an imaginative dance between microcosm and macrocosm.

Kuan Yin could appear extraordinarily expanded, as huge cave formations or entire galaxies. She could also manifest as a minute cell. Coming to Lena as a magnificent stone statue atop a mountain or as a tiny bird with a Kuan Yin head, Her message was always the same: we all possess the empowering spiritual tools of free will and loving-kindness and no amount of change or destruction can ever take that away. In another memorable session, at a time in her life when Lena was feeling tired and discouraged, she was surrounded: dwarfed by some towering and incomprehensible trance backdrop. Experiencing herself as suddenly cradled in the palm of Kuan Yin’s titanic hand, she realized she was a child again, being comforted and nurtured by Asia's Goddess of Compassion and Mercy.

Motherly love/loving kindness is that unfathomable well from which children draw upon for strength and sustenance throughout their lives. Yet, as Kuan Yin wryly states: “In this world, the mothering element is not valued enough…Women are expected to shoulder the entire responsibility for being single and a parent. When individuals don’t place the mother as important for society, there will always be, as a result, a disproportionate amount of obesity and stomach problems."

“Here, I want to stress that the stomach, not the heart, is the center of our beings. Some might contend that because love and emotions spring from the heart, it is the heart that directs our lives. However, it is the stomach which defines our energy field and our identity—everything. Think of those societies, tribes, where a large stomach denotes wealth and power. It is no accident. You identify yourselves through your stomachs. However, because of how your culture holds motherhood in low esteem your culture is out of balance.”

The deity then exclaims, “What a radical concept! Everyone having loving kindness! With practice, a reality is created somewhere having that very consciousness of loving kindness. Such practice also draws one to those (loving kindness) planes of consciousness…we’re all one huge family, a great continuum. Don’t underestimate the power of the love created in your homes and families. This love has an immense potency, the power to influence other’s lives in a positive way.”

2006 © Hope Bradford CHt